From the day after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, on January 7, 2015, when 12 people were murdered in the offices of the French satirical weekly and on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, near Paris’s Place de la République, many support marches and tributes took place all over France. In Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse, as well as in the suburbs of Paris, the slogan “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) resounded against terrorism.
After the hunt for the Kouachi brothers came to an end, and in the wake of Amedy Coulibaly’s attacks in Montrouge, a southern Paris suburb, and on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes, the already large-scale mobilization took on historic proportions on Sunday, January 11. A major “Republican March” was organized in Paris, bringing together 1.5 million people, including 44 heads of state from around the world in front of the procession. Within two days, four million people took to the streets.
To mark the tenth anniversary of this event, below is a selection of photographs taken for Le Monde on this occasion.
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